“Each finding like a friend
Something to blame, and something to commend.”
"Epistle to Mr. Jervas" (1717), lines 21–22.
Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
“They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake.”
"The Wife of Bath her Prologue, from Chaucer" (c.1704, published 1713), line 103.
Odes, Book iv, Ode 9, reported in William Warburton, The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq (1751) p. 31.
Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
As quoted in Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men (1820) by Joseph Spence [arranged, with notes, by the late Edmund Malone], pp. 28–29 & 53–54.
Attributed
“Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast,
When husbands, or when lapdogs, breathe their last.”
Canto III, line 157.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
In a 1715 letter (LXXVII), as found in Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope: And Several of His Friends. 1737.
George Dennison Prentice http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4820, in Prenticeana (1860)
Misattributed
“Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.”
"Epitaph on the Hon. S. Harcourt" (1720).
“Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began
A mighty hunter, and his prey was man.”
Source: Windsor Forest (1713), Line 61.
“Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.”
Canto II, line 27. Compare: "No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Section 2, Membrane 1, Subsection 2.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
“Never find fault with the absent.”
Absenti nemo non nocuisse velit.
Sextus Propertius, Elegies, II, xix, 32, also translated: "Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent".
Misattributed
“If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.”
Canto II, line 17.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
Canto II, line 105.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)